Makers of Titanic, Watch this and WEEP.

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2000)

The Legend Of 1900 is the story of a boy found as a baby on a transatlantic liner on the first day of the new century. He grows up on the ship, and as an incredibly skilled pianist, out plays a legendary Jazz musician. But he will not leave the ship.
This film is wonderful in many respects. It evokes the atmosphere of a luxury ocean going liner superbly and is beautifully filmed. Here end any comparisons with Titanic. The screen play is superb. The story is subtle, engaging, moving and intelligent. The makers of Titanic should watch this film, because it demonstrates how to tell a story on a ship, that is more remarkable than the ship itself. Then they should feel bad that their second rate film gained worldwide publicity, and this gem did not. Compare the 37000 votes Titanic has received to the mere 300 this film has received.
The are also tremendously interesting themes running through this film, of our fear of the unknown, and the acceptance of the macrocosm into which we are born, for which the Truman Show was so notable.
Altogether, a marvelous piece. See it.